Aug 31, 2013
JPP texex91...I'm trying....BTW, glad you finally pulled the trigger.�
Aug 31, 2013
NoMoDinos Wow! So many docs on this forum. I'm usually on the other one, just passing through to check out the pics of the new aero wheels.
Gen/Lap surg here, waiting patiently for my blue p85, taking delivery in December. Not even close to the first at my hospital. All the gas-passers and carpenters kept going on about how much they loved theirs, and it made me a sad, jealous surgeon, so I put down my deposit. Trying to get the hospital to put up some free chargers, no luck so far.
There are a few Maseratis, Aston Martins, and a GT3, but the MS's are the rockstars of the lot, to be sure
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Aug 31, 2013
xray You're absolutely right. I have mentioned it but obviously it hasn't been enough. Will keep on trying....�
Aug 31, 2013
BobtheV Sorry, but what is a "carpenter?" An orthopod?
Back in the day I knew Urologists were the "stream team." I tried to get something going for neurologists: as nerve pervs, but it didn't take.
As for me, I'm a shrink and I am saving for my MS.�
Aug 31, 2013
firedwg1 +1 ;-)�
Sep 1, 2013
NoMoDinos Yup, affectionately named, of course! We always poke fun at ours because they kicked our @##es in med school, and then spend the rest of their careers pretending they don't remember any of it.�
Sep 1, 2013
MSPRad X-RAY-- I'm also not on the forum everyday; just enough to amuse my wife:smile: Glad you saw my post.
I'm also in CA, but my hospital is not progressive enough to have put in charging stations. The truth is, I only live a few miles from the main hospital, so I don't need a charging station, even if I was driving a Leaf. I really should be riding my bike to work instead of driving anyway, but my Model S is just too much fun to leave at home (or more likely, my wife would just steal it).�
Sep 2, 2013
mathur Urologist here (plumber) and I just ordered one last week. Still going to keep My Audi R8 when I need the feel of a big V8 engine that guzzles lots of gas. Between the two I may have the fuel economy of a Prius!!!�
Sep 2, 2013
MarkR After driving the MS for about a week, you are apt to lose your interest in the "feel of a big V8." Welcome to the club!�
Sep 2, 2013
reddy How did I miss this thread ? I replaced my 2 year old Leaf with a MS in May.
Endocrinologist here, and so far the only Tesla at either of our 2 hospitals. However I have had several cardiologists drooling over it and threatening to commit grand theft auto. I told them I bought it for the adrenaline rush.�
Sep 2, 2013
NoMoDinos Ha! Nice. Pressing down on the Go pedal is like the old adrenal cortex mneumonic... "The deeper you go, the sweeter it gets"�
Sep 3, 2013
texex91 Hey let's watch the language docs! LOL HA!�
Sep 3, 2013
huntjo Also it's "mnemonic", as in the Greek mnemonikos meaning of memory. Not to be confused with "pneumonic" from the Greek pneumonikos meaning of, relating to, or affecting the lungs.
Here's a mnemonic for you: when you type "mneUmonic", then U are doin it wrong :biggrin:�
Sep 3, 2013
DrTaras It's been fun reading all these posts of my brothers and sisters finally joining the fray!�
Sep 3, 2013
brianman Beat me to it! Well played.�
Sep 4, 2013
NoMoDinos Texex91 - LOL. very true, for the children!
DrTaras - great vanity plate! Someone on the other forum was considering "FU OPEC", but for some inexplicable reason it was denied.�
Sep 4, 2013
DrTaras In 2007 I tried to get "OPEC" but they said it was proprietary so I went for the "K" instead of the "C" since then, I've seen "OPEC"
As for the "CYA" I told them it was "See ya" and didn't tell them it was "Cover Your ..."!�
Sep 4, 2013
EMDoc Nice thread. Only P85 here at my place. The entire ER and some of the other guys in the hospital knows I have the P85. Word travels. I enjoy being anonymous though...so I park out of sight underground but still they find out. Two other guys (hospitalists I think) have a blue 60 and a black 85. Seems like a lot of engineers and docs are drawn to this car for many reasons! Enjoy!�
Sep 5, 2013
VolkerP Well tell them there's a defibrillator interface behind the nose cone to really get them interested...�
Sep 5, 2013
NoMoDinos Haha... hm, actually, not a bad idea... "Not only is Model S the safest in crashes, it will take you out of v-fib! (after it puts you into it)"�
Sep 5, 2013
AlMc Ordered my 85P+ at a time when there was a two month wait. Next door neighbor is an ICU doc. He bought a red MB convertible 5 days before my 'S' arrived. He is still trying to figure out how his next door neighbor, a veterinarian, could afford a Tesla ( bought some TSLA :biggrin�
Sep 5, 2013
Twiddler Am I seriously the only eletrophysiologist here?! I mean, it is THE PERFECT EP car!�
Sep 5, 2013
caddieo Since retirement does not erase the suffix after my name, I might as well join the party. Retired surgeon so I have no Doctor's Parking Lot to write about. However, I do have a gated community lot as well as the whole town to talk about and I believe I am the only show in both places. So far have been getting mostly blank stares on the road. I guess I'm somewhat isolated and off the beaten track so it's good that I can be in touch with fellow enthusiasts via this web site.�
Sep 7, 2013
Vip Getting the car in one week. The hospital will complete installation of NEMA 14-50 by the end of the month. Car is going to the detailer as soon as I get it to get 22PLE and XPEL put on. Debating about floor mats, will decide once I get the car. Also debating about alloygators to protect the wheels. Anyone here using them?
Took two weeks of vacation between confirming and delivery. It just happened this way, did not plan it. But it did help the with the anticipation angst! Waiting only 4 weeks until delivery also helps!!! Excited beyond belief!!�
Sep 8, 2013
AlMc Put gators on mine...Local SC did it for me. I understand that they may not put them on for you these days. Since they are from England they take 10-14 days to cross the pond. If you enter the word 'tesla' in promo screen they used to give 10% discount. Will put these on every future vehicle purchase. Good luck.�
Sep 8, 2013
Vip What color did you get? What kind of wheels do you have? Would you have gotten another color?�
Sep 8, 2013
AlMc I have 21" silver wheels. Got black Gators as I felt they might hide some scraps better than silver. I probably would do silver at this point if I could do it over again.�
Sep 9, 2013
DrTaras Great meeting 4SUPER9 as well as a number of other docs today in a different parking lot
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Sep 9, 2013
xray MSPRad. I live very close to the hospital also so it really doesn't make sense for me to stomp up and down too much for a charging station because that's part of the point of having a Tesla, that you can drive without much range anxiety. Most days, I actually drive our Prius to work and it's my wife that racks up the miles on the Tesla (she's doing a very good job at that). It doesn't make sense for me to drive a few miles, and then just park the car for the entire day while my wife is driving around in circles around town wasting gas (if she drives the Prius). Anyway, I think the solution will be to get her the Model X when it is released, so that I can drive the S. We'll see were they price the X...with all the price increases, I'm getting worried that I'll have to settle. At least the falcon wing doors will come standard.�
Sep 10, 2013
DrTaras Since you're in a similar location to my friend, if you know Dr. Nick Rose (hand surgeon) make sure you tell him I said to drop his dinosaur-juice gulping Maserati and get a real performance sedan like a MSP! :wink:�
Sep 11, 2013
rewski Well my P85+ white with black leather should arrive in a couple of weeks in Denver CO. Seeing more and more on the road but will be the first in my clinic parking lot. I just work outpatient Family Medicine in a primary care clinic of 20 docs for Kaiser Permanente. Married to an OBGYN (sugar momma!) and expecting our second child in a couple months so needed to get a 4 door. The MS was a natural choice (sold my 2012 Camaro SS vert). Planning to get a MX for the wife in a couple of years!�
Sep 11, 2013
jcaspar Another ophthalmologist here. Work at the University so no doctors lot.�
Sep 13, 2013
MSPRad I made the mistake of letting my wife read your post. Now she is convinced that she should be driving the Tesla, and I the Prius (yeah, we got one of those too). Hmmm, we may need a second Tesla sooner than I thought. Wish I bought some TSLA when I picked up my car in March.�
Sep 14, 2013
jcaspar On Saturdays I frequently see a few postop patients when the office is otherwise closed. In the front lot, it is pretty obvious which car is yours. I am always self conscious to park either of my vehicles there so I always park in back:
My 1993 Chevy 4x4 pickup--- "Wow, how good can this doctor be? Must not be doing well driving something like that...."
My 1997 Dodge Viper----"So that's why my LASIK cost so much!!!"
Hoping the Model S will strike a nice balance and I can park in the front lot .....:smile:�
Sep 15, 2013
Cards2011 Anesthesiologist in southeastern Wisconsin. . My orthopod buddy, bbamrah, took me for a spin in his silver P85 in April. Bought a gray P85 only a couple of weeks afterwards. I live in a relatively small town, so I am pretty much the only Tesla owner within in a 20 mile radius of my hospital. I am working on one of my gas colleagues and a hand surgeon as my pet projects to buy a MS..�
Sep 15, 2013
7racer NICE! I do EMR work too and think the retina group out there I have dealt with!�
Sep 18, 2013
speedyellow08 Charge port
Did u succeed in admin installing a charge port?. I failed.�
Sep 18, 2013
Timothy I have failed to get an EVSE--for 2 years now even after getting a grant from the Community Environmental Council. Hospital says that even with the grant the cost to the hospital with all the nonsense they have to go through is $20 grand per charging station.
I will keep pushing though. I annoyed them enough (along with many others) to get the hospital to be a non smoking institution after 10 years of pushing them. And last year was the first to have influenza vaccine required for all physicians--and this year for all hospital staff.
One just has to continuously keep the hospital under pressure to get them to do the right thing. They won't do it of their own natural accord.�
Sep 19, 2013
Vip Good for you Timothy (about the non smoking and vaccine). Keep trying.
I spoke with our maintenance manager and told him I was getting a Tesla. He was familiar with it. I emailed him charging information about the Tesla. I received an email two weeks later stating that they were going to put a NEMA 15-40 in the garage. I was ecstatic! They are still working on the install and should be ready in 1-2 weeks.�
Sep 19, 2013
Rastalew Twiddler, I'm a PM&R doc who does my share of EMG/NCS studies and I have to agree that the MS give me a bigger jolt than any repetitive stim study could... During electrodiagnostic studies, I end up waxing eloquent about TSLA, the Model S, EV's, infrastructure, Elon Musk-- you name it, whenever a patient brings up something even remotely related. It does help distract the patient from the zaps I'm giving them!
There's at least two other MS in our hospital (and a proud Fisker owner) and three other docs (ED, optho and general surgery) in our neighborhood have them, ranging from sig p85s to s85s.
Since getting my own S85 a few months ago, I don't mind driving from hospital to clinic to surgery center to admin meeting nearly as much-- in fact, I look for every excuse to visit another campus during the day...
As a friend of mine said to me, "We were wondering when you were going to get a REAL doctor's car." (What did they have against my 03 Honda Pilot?!)�
Sep 19, 2013
Chris Unless you are one of the low-risk individuals now suffering the consequences from mass immunization (am aware of claims the specific immune booster was not used in the US)
UK Government accepts swine flu vaccine caused narcolepsy in children
(Anesthesiologist here not satisfied with mandatory medical procedures)�
Sep 19, 2013
Timothy There are pros and cons to everything we do--medically and otherwise. Sometimes we have to take a small risk for society's benefit. Immunization has eliminated small pox and polio--and dramatically reduced death rates from other illnesses. Look at the stats from the 1940s on death rates from pertussis, measles, etc. Now all markedly decreased. On a personal note, my daughter almost died of H. flu meningitis at age 15 months before a vaccine was available. Now there is an immunization that is 99% effective. Infectious disease fellows today have never even seen a case of H. flu meningitis. Mass immunization programs help society as a whole--herd immunity and all that--we just have to do it. I wish she had been a beneficiary of that vaccine.
What if we were all individualists? Well, my car was put together at the Lotus Factory in England. So, should I have the right to drive on the left side of the road if I want just like the British? So what if others don't want to, its my choice as an individual!
Oh, public good means we all have to drive the same way? Well, public good is why we have immunization programs as well.
(What? Off topic? I mentioned a Roadster, didn't I?)�
Sep 19, 2013
rrosenbl I agree, get a lot of comments, smiles/grins. I'm the third MD at my hospital to own one. Plus it looks good for one focused on health to drive a healthful, environmentally friendly car. RR�
Sep 20, 2013
Gynob001 I am a Ph.D and hold a MBA degree. I chose Tesla after considering Porsche Cayman as (hopefully) my last car. I have owned 21 cars in the past 37 years, about 17 of them bought new. My son still drives the Prius that I bought in 2000 and I personally drove only one car for over 5 years. I drive the car that is driven by technology. I have traded a car three months after I bought it. Is Tesla Model S my best? Only time will tell; already some of my friends are betting that when a better car shows up, I might exchange my Model S.
What is your prediction about the next technologically advanced, Eco friendly car in the horizen?�
Sep 20, 2013
Twiddler That is a great story! Hopefully you don't accidentally condition your patients to associate Tesla with the oh-so-pleasant NCS/EMG experience, which I do hear is rather shocking (mwa mwaaa)
I am an EP fellow with an S, wife (radiology) has a MX reservation. We also have one other radiologist with a new S85 (and many others who have owned stock since the 90s after hearing us unable to shut up about the company and King Elon). I am also proud to report that one of our EP guys just brought home a red P85 from the Dallas service center as well.
What I find interesting is how many radiologists have turned out to be early adopters - I guess it is a tech thing!
In any event, I am happy to hear about the 03 Pilot upgrade - the MS is just so much more choice
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Sep 21, 2013
DrTaras Dr. Timothy... GREAT line about driving on the left side of the road with your Roadster and individualism vs. the greater good!
Since I have a Roadster and a Model S, may I decide which side of the road to drive on based on my whim at that time?
(there, I now mentioned two Tesla models and even mentioned the word Tesla, car & doctor to make this relevant to this thread).
Here's a 64 second PSA:
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Sep 21, 2013
Timothy Well, that sure beats any of my wise-ass lines. I've sent it to the VP of Idiocy at my hospital and to the head of Infectious Disease. They are the ones who have to have to deal with the 'I don't want a flu shot because the sun spots are out of alignment' types.
I wish I had an equivalent video about EV charging for them. Death does trump most other arguments, though.
BTW, with your vehicles you can't drive on the left or the right--you have to drive in the middle of the road! :tongue:�
Sep 22, 2013
alsetj Hey, good morning all.
I'm here in the NYC metro area and just put down my order a few days ago. I'm an eye MD and love tech...i see a lot of cards and rads on this who have loved the car. Although drs love tech, we tend to be very conservative. Do any of you have any regrets on the s85? do you feel you purchased it precociously? i came home and my wife was happy but upset that this will be our 4th car (but my daughter drives a subaru for high school); i just did not want to miss out on all the tangible benefits (tax, nj credit, ez pass, etc).
I fell in love with the car when i drove it and it beat the accel on my other leased car--the porsche pan4s. we do lots of miles as a family so i can justify this, but i feel a little anxiety x 48 hrs with getting in "so early." this drs post made it feel like i was in the drs lounge of our hospital. much easier feeling now and am 99% in now.
for those living in colder or 4-season climates, do you worry about how it will perform compared to a AWD vehicle?
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Sep 22, 2013
Ven Rala I am a family physician in a small town. So everyone knows it's my Model S in the Parking lot at my office. I did consider what my patients would think as I have gotten (half joking) comments about my previous Lexus IS ("A Lexus huh? So that's where my money is going" and this from a patient that had a motorcycle and 'several' cars).
If I kept my 97 Honda Civic which I had when I started practice in 2006, I am sure patients would think that I must not be doing very well, after all what kind of doctor has a Civic (I actually loved my civic, and my IS).
Some people will always judge you. Do what makes you happy, do what's right for your patients and be smart with your money.�
Sep 22, 2013
Barry So you can't spell ophthalmologist? :smile: I'm one, as well.
Absolutely. That's why I'm waiting for either the AWD S or the X. Hopefully it won't be too long.�
Sep 22, 2013
dsm363 Check the Canada forum and a few of the winter threads. I think with real winter tires, the Model S does very well even without AWD although might not handle fresh deep snow as well.�
Sep 22, 2013
alsetj of course i can spell ophthalmologist!!!
eye md is easier for folks to comprehend vs ophth...
i'm looking forward to this car, but i can wait if it gets better...
i still have a lease on a porsche pan4s...
my wife is furious but likes the green aspect of tesla!
let's see what happens,
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Sep 22, 2013
SarahsDad I'm the first at our Hospital with a Tesla, but not for long. A urologist has one on order.
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Sep 22, 2013
ecarfan Now that's amusing�
Sep 22, 2013
texex91 Like your build doc. Sorry you have to park it next to that corvette--hopefully he will trade it soon for a real fast S.�
Sep 22, 2013
BobtheV Doctors are conservative? In which universe?�
Sep 22, 2013
JPP ...no EVSE equipment yet? Need to lobby your hospital....�
Oct 1, 2013
ecarfan Sold one of my Porsches and have now placed my order for an S85. One of the anesthesiologists I work with is interested in Teslas. He's going to want one even more when he sees my silver/black roof/grey interior show up in the parking lot...�
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